INDIRA GANDHI: A Life in Nature

Indira Gandhi- A lady as charismatic as she was controversial, at once admired and criticized for her political judgments and actions- she served as the Prime Minister of India for 16 long years. We know her through articles books and essays and history may have painted her in the best way possible but what has not been fully understood is her life-long communion with nature and how that defined her very being.
Politician-scholar Jairam Ramesh narrates the compelling story of Indira Gandhi, the naturalist by weaving personal political and environmental history.
The book answers tehfollowing said questions:
Why and how she came to make a private passion a public calling;
How her views on the environment remained steadfast even as her political and economic stances changed;
How her friendships with conservationists led to far-reaching decisions to preserve India’s biodiversity;
How she urged, cajoled and persuaded her colleagues as she took significant decisions particularly regarding forests and wildlife; and
How her own finely-developed instincts and beliefs resulted in landmark policies, programmes, initiatives, laws and institutions that have endured.
Drawing extensively from unpublished letters, notes, messages and memos the title offers a lively, conversational narrative of a relatively little known but fascinating aspect of Indira Gandhi’s tumultuous life.